? on fragging/ splitting whatever it's called

[zoie2]

I bought a rock with some nice orange zoos/polyps on it. It had some green one's too, but I liked the orange. I found out, soon after I got it home, that the orange ones open first and by 10:00am the green ones open and cover the orange ones so they can't be seen. Is there a way of getting the orange ones off the rock, then I can trade the green ones and keep the orange?
before the green open all the way

after the green take over

 

[mopar9012]

Is there a coupld of the orange ones that dont get covered? If so i would just get a small piece of rock, put it next to them and in a week or 2 they should be on that rock.

 

[shinekjl]

Be very careful if you are going to frag zoo's. The spit posion. If you have a pair of good bone cutters you could try to break the orange ones off, but do not do this out of the water.

 

[cjason3041]

can you frag polyps???

 

[bronco300]

you frag out of water so that any toxins do NOT enter your water and make for more trouble if you are in the tank.....just take the rock out, get a chisel and hammer...close the zoos up before taking out, then put on the ground and wedge the chisel between the polyps , then hit it will it breaks...either that or put a rock right next to it and it will grow over.
WARNING:: MAKE SURE YOU WEAR GLOVES AND GOGGLES---they do have the possibility of shooting out toxins, and can be very harmful and possibly fatal...so be extremely careful.

 

[hot883]

Defiantely do it out of water. The button polyps (green ones) are not zoanthids so to speak. They are more territorial and mean. I would slice them off at the trunk and hope the orange zoas continue to grow. barry

 

[zoie2]

I learned my lesson about 'out of the water' last week. Those yellow polyps started to get out of control so I used tweezers to pull them off one rock. BAD mistake! I'm lucky I only lost one head on my frog spawn, it could have been alot worse!
Anyway, I have the rock perched on three other rocks, the problem is only the green ones have spread onto the other rocks.
Maybe I will split the rock, keep the half with the most orange and pluck off the green ones that are there. It seem a shame to kill the green ones though. They are nice looking, I just have so much green in my tank.
Anyway, thanks for the advise and suggestions, and warnings!!